Recent drawing of Mary Harrington for The New Statesman: Big thanks to Gerry :)

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Theodore Roosevelt, 1900

He was an American politician, statesman, soldier, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

Photograph: George G. Rockwood

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'Fuck the Americans'?

Makes a change from 'business' or 'anything in sight' from I suppose.

Statesmanlike. https://t.co/DOutm9YpJv

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Tadeusz Kościuszko was a Polish statesman and military leader.He fought in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth's struggles and in the American Revolutionary War. As Supreme Commander of the Polish National Armed Forces, he led the 1794  Kościuszko Uprising.

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Who was the Greatest Statesman of the Napoleonic era?

In a bar brawl of a first of two episodes debating contenders for this title, & discuss Metternich, Younger Pitt, Castlereagh & Nana Fadnavis

🎧 https://t.co/E9p8m6m2cz

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Odoacer (c. 433-493)
Was a soldier and statesman of uncertain barbarian background, who deposed the roman Emperor Romulus Augustulus in 476 and became the ruler of the remnants of the Western Empire as King of Italy. His rule is seen as marking the fall of Rome

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ステイツマンで獣を狩るため星に降りました
ロキは獣を焼いて食べましたが、その獣の耳が生えてしまったのでした…🐰
He went down to the stars to hunt the beast in Statesman.
Loki roasted the beast and ate it, and the beast grew ears...
(*模写してます)

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Lord Castlereagh (1769-1822)
Robert Stewart, was an Anglo-Irish statesman. Serving as secretary to the Viceroy of Ireland, he suppressed the Rebellion of 1798 and secured the Irish act of union with Great Britain in 1800. He represented Britain at the Congress of Vienna

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The Rt Hon Chamberlain, by "WHO" - Vanity Fair, 29 Jan 1908

Joseph Chamberlain, a British statesman who was first a radical Liberal, then, after opposing home rule for Ireland, a Liberal Unionist, & eventually served as a leading imperialist in coalition with the Conservatives.

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Theodore Roosevelt, by James Montgomery Flagg - Vanity Fair, 4 September 1902

He was an American politician, statesman, soldier, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

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George Wyndham, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 20 September 1900

He was a British Conservative politician, statesman, man of letters, and one of The Souls, a small loosely-knit but distinctive elite social and intellectual group in the UK from 1885 to the turn of the century.

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The Timurid Emperor Sultan Husayn Bayqara and Turkic poet and statesman, Ali-Shir Nava'i.

Bayqara and Nava’i were not only schoolmates but also served in the same government. They both changed the course of Asian history.

They are buried together in the city of Herat.

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Peter II of Portugal (1648-1706)
Nicknamed "The Pacific", was King from 1683 until his death, previously serving as regent for his brother Afonso VI since 1668
An able statesman, he was responsible for the end of the Restoration War and strenghtened the Anglo-Portuguese alliance

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The village of 'Dragley Beck', now part of Ulverston, is the birthplace of Sir John Barrow, English statesman, and one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society. It gets it's name from the dragon that legend says, sleeps underneath it.

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UK artist Tim Kirby has been providing silly drawings for editorial, publishing, and corporate for longer than most of you have been able to hold a pencil. Clients include Ogilvy & Mather, Gramophone, New Statesman, and the BBC, to name a few. 👉 https://t.co/lWJC2aXkDL

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John Bright, by Carlo Pellegrini - Vanity Fair, 6 April 1889

He was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, one of the greatest orators of his generation and a promoter of free trade policies.

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William Henry Waddington, by Théobald Chartran - Vanity Fair, 28 September 1878

He was a French statesman who served as Prime Minister in 1879, and as an Ambassador of France.

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James Howard Harris, Earl of Malmesbury, by Carlo Pellegrini - Vanity Fair, 25 July 1874

He was a British statesman of the Victorian era.

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Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers, by Adriano Cecioni - Published in Vanity Fair, 6 January 1872

He was a French statesman and historian. He was the second elected President of France and first President of the French Third Republic.

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